Technology evolves at a breakneck pace. With this in mind, SPEC believes
that computer benchmarks need to evolve as well. While the older benchmarks
(SPEC CPU95) still provide a meaningful point of
comparison, it is important to develop tests that can consider the changes
in technology. SPEC CPU2000 is the next-generation industry-standardized
CPU-intensive benchmark suite. SPEC designed CPU2000 to provide a
comparative measure of compute intensive performance across the widest
practical range of hardware. The implementation resulted in source code
benchmarks developed from real user applications. These benchmarks measure
the performance of the processor, memory and compiler on the tested system.

Licensees of CPU2000 V1.3 should download an
updated copy of the benchmark's run and
reporting rules. This version replaces the document shipped with the
CD.

SPEC CPU2000 Retirement

CPU2000 was retired in February 2007. Starting
November 24, 2006, all CPU2000 result submissions for the SPEC web
site were required to be accompanied by a CPU2006 result using:

The same hardware, including memory size

The same operating system and OS tuning

Corresponding metrics: for example, if you submit
256 copy SPECfp_rate2006, then also submit
256 user SPECfp_rate2000

Compilers and benchmark tuning may differ

As of February 24, 2007, no further CPU2000 results are being accepted
for publication on the SPEC web site.

Results

Text, HTML, PDF, PostScript, and Configuration file outputs for the SPEC
CPU2000 metrics; includes all of the results submitted to SPEC from the
SPEC member companies and other licensees of the benchmark.
Search across all CPU2000 results
in SPEC's online result database.

Explanations from the testers for what all those cryptic flags in the
results' notes section really mean.

Information

SPEC CPU Benchmark Search Program

SPEC has set up a SPEC CPU
Benchmark Search Program designed to encourage and recognize
achievements of the academic and industrial community in providing and
developing application code and datasets that could be used as components
for the next version of the SPEC CPU benchmark suites (currently targeted
for release as SPEC CPU2006). The search program
is now closed, but historical information about the program is available
along with the CPU2006 information.